Topic: self-inflicted

VANCOUVER, Wash. — The Clark County sheriff’s office says a Vancouver woman fabricated a story about being stabbed by a strange man in her own backyard. Detectives determined her wounds were self-inflicted. She had reported she was on her backyard deck Monday afternoon when a man slashed her with a large knife. She was treated for minor…

A Bremerton woman who stabbed herself and then told police a 6-foot-tall man in a black hoodie did it has been booked into Kitsap County Jail on investigation of false reporting and obstructing police. The 24-year-old woman called 911 at 1:45 p.m. on Wednesday and said she’d been stabbed while walking on Wheaton Way, a main road,…

Injuries sustained to a 16-year-old Kitsap teen, who originally reported he’d been shot, turned out to have been accidentally self-inflicted, according to the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office. The teen told a foster parent on Monday that he had been shot by an unknown person after getting off a school bus, the Sheriff’s Office said. Kitsap County sheriff’s patrol deputies,…

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